Explosion over the Caribbean highlights NASA's asteroid tracking credentials

In a neat bit of fast-paced detective work, NASA recently backtracked from an image of a meteor that exploded over the Caribbean Sea and was able to confirm that it marked the demise of an asteroid that had only been detected 12 hours earlier. Estimated to be only 16 ft (5 m) in size, it was too small to pose any danger, but it did demonstrate the space agency's growing ability to monitor potentially hazardous asteroids.

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